A new vote added to the Strongbow’s Voice Poll: Orlando Bloom, the attractive fellow who plays Legolas in the recently-released Fellowship of the Ring. Well, he’s an elf and archer, so close enough, eh folks?
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Last week’s lateness habit has been busted, in honor of it being the Weekend Before Anna’s Birthday jam — and in honor of having a brand new public take to share with y’all. Check out our version of “You Woke Up My Neighborhood” and let us know what you think of Patrick’s ending, folks! And for details of the session that produced this, Jam #34 is now posted for your reading pleasure.
Sparky in Rochester, a reader from over on Greatbigsea.com, informs us that she never misses a Jam Report. To which we must saw, “Awwww gawrsh!”, while muttering to each other, “Whoa, somebody actually reads these things?” Sparky further requests of us that we should include a Piebook on our web page, to which I will note that this was in fact part of the original plan for our webpage. Watch this space for forthcoming recipes for Pies We Have Known and Loved.
Dana informs me that she has acquired a cello. She does not in fact know how to play the cello, but we are quite interested in seeing this new lovely of hers — and seeing whether we can work it into something pretty!
And lastly, because I have finally actually played my octave mandolin in a Jam, my bigger baby has been added to my roster of instruments. Just because. ;)
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Apparently, the beginning of a new year has not yet broken me of my habit of writing jam reports late, folks — but I got a good excuse, honest, I’ve been learning all sorts of new chords! For the details, check out Jam #33 1/3!
We have in fact now commenced group discussion about busking at Folklife, which has become an official goal now. The folks at Folklife inform me in email that Seattle Center is in the middle of setting new policies for busking for this year’s festival, and once those are posted on their website, we’ll know what to do to actually be able to show up and make public nuisances of ourselves. We hope. In the meantime, it has also occurred to us that what we really need is to have a Kitchen Party, but we appear to have a sad dearth of Canadians in the immediate vicinity. Siiiiiigh!
The folks at CDKU do not remember us, sadly. Oh well, if we do in fact have a dozen fans in Halifax, we’ll have to find some other way of getting in touch with them!
And I must further gush about good news related to my brother Donnie’s band, Outspoken, who are almost done recording their album here in Seattle. Donnie has relayed to me that they had the great fortune of being able to hire Paul Buckmaster, who is evidently Extremely Famous(TM), to come in and write a string arrangement for them for one of their tracks. They also brought in a 24-piece string ensemble to perform his composition, and Donnie got the whole thing on his camcorder. I’m here to tell y’all, there are few things finer than hearing five cellos go to town on a piece of music.
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Happy New Year! A new picture by Meghan is up on the Miscellaneous Gallery; Strongbow Resources link removed from the Sightings page; Crescent! link updated on the Other Links page, to reflect the new version of that page. Five more parts to Loner’s story “True Lifemates” have been posted to the Fanfic page, as well!
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It’s a new year and a new excuse to wipe my “What’s New” page! I’m keeping the 2001 Updates along with the older ones just because I’m an information packrat, but organization is good, too. In the meantime, I’ve also added a bunch of new logs to Faanshi’s 2000 Roleplay Logs and 2001 Roleplay Logs pages. More logs to come!
I have also restructured Faanshi’s logs pages to lose the frames, and also to apply the same stylesheet to them that I’m using on her main pages. Let’s hear it for a consistent look and feel, eh folks?
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A whole bunch of new logs have been added to the 1999 section of my Faanshi logs page. I’ll get ’em caught up yet, folks!
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A couple of new Sightings added to the Sightings page!
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A couple small tweaks have been made to my Bio page. For anybody that actually bothers to read it. ;)
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A belated Jam #32 is up, folks, on account of I wanted to get this out before I vanish offline for the holidays. And in the meantime, I wanted to note a few small random things here for posterity, to wit:
Fred says that he got a Christmas card from one of the regulars on the Online Kitchen Party, who describes herself as a fan of Three Good Measures. To which we must go, ‘Eek, we have FANS?!’
The number of not-entirely-nonsense noises being made about us busking in actual public at the Folklife Festival this next May is escalating. More bulletins on this as events warrant.
I’m being leaned on to try to contact the radio stations in Halifax that played us, so I’m going to *gulp* try and find them in email if at all possible. More on this as events warrant as well.
And last, but at least so far as I am personally concerned not least, I am finally starting to bond with my guitar. Not quite ready to add it yet to the roster of instruments I play, though!
And in conclusion, since I won’t be updating this page again until the 30th if not later, everybody out there who might happen to read this, happy holidays to you all. :)
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More Great Big Sea pictures added to my GBS pics page! Also, updated my current MUSH characters and old MUSH characters pages.